Historical Events on March 25

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• 1 Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
• 31 The first Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
• 421 Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded

• 708 Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 1150 Tichborne family of Hampshire England start tradition of giving gallon of flour to residents to keep deathbed promise

• 1305 Consecration of the Scrovegni Chapel (Arena Chapel) in Padua, Italy, with fresco masterpiece by Florentine painter Giotto

• 1409 Council of Pisa opens - elects Antipope Alexander V

• 1571 Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves England

• 1593 Recantation of Loos, Dutch scholar Coinelius Loos recants his earlier written protest against witchcraft persecution in Trier, Germany before officials in Brussels

• 1634 Under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother Leonard Calvert first settlers found Catholic colony of Maryland
• 1647 Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay

• 1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000

• 1802 Great Britain and the French Republic sign the Treaty of Amiens

• 1807 First fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world established on the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales

• 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism
• 1813 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific by the frigate Essex
• 1814 Netherlands Bank established
• 1817 Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
• 1821 The Greek revolution against the Ottoman Turks is officially declared, with hostilities having started two months earlier

• 1847 Pope Pius issues IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
• 1851 Yosemite Valley discovery made public by Major James D. Savage and Captain John Boling after being shown by Indian guides in California
• 1852 Friedrich Hebbel's tragedy "Agnes Bernauer" premieres in Munich
• 1856 A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
• 1857 Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville receives a patent for his phonautograph, a device which created visual images of sound
• 1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse

• 1863 Skirmish at Brentwood, Tennessee
• 1864 Battle of Paducah, Kentucky (Forrest's raid)
• 1865 Battle of Bluff Spring, Florida
• 1865 Battle of Mobile, Alabama (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
• 1865 Battle of Petersburg: Confederate forces launch an unsuccessful counterattack on Fort Stedman
• 1865 SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400

• 1876 Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland defeat Wales (4-0)
• 1882 1st demonstration of pancake making, held at a department store in NYC
• 1888 Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
• 1889 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England
• 1894 Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon, Ohio, for Washington, D.C.
• 1895 Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
• 1898 Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
• 1898 Swami Vivekananda initiates Margaret Noble (Sister Nivedita) into vow of Brahmacharya, first western woman received into Indian monastic order

• 1900 US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
• 1901 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown, Iowa
• 1902 In Russia, 567 students are tried for rioting and 'political disaffection' are found guilty; 95 are banished to Siberia
• 1902 Irving W. Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
• 1903 Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
• 1905 Confederate battle flags captured during the American Civil War are returned to South
• 1907 Stanley Cup, Winnipeg Auditorium, Winnipeg, Manitoba: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles, 6-5 but win on 2 game aggregate, 12-8
• 1908 Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil
• 1910 Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
• 1911 L. D. Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
• 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls in Greenwich Village, New York
• 1913 Great Dayton Flood: winter rains cause Great Miami River to flood, Ohio's greatest natural disaster
• 1913 Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn
• 1915 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sinks off Hawaii, killing 21
• 1915 German U boat torpedoes Netherlands merchant ship Medea
• 1916 Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for heavyweight boxing title in NYC

• 1918 Belarusian People's Republic is established

• 1920 Greek Independence Day
• 1923 British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
• 1924 Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
• 1924 Stanley Cup Final, Ottawa Auditorium, Ottawa, ON: Montreal Canadiens (NHL) beat Calgary Tigers (WCHL), 3-0 for a 2-0 series sweep
• 1931 Hal Kemp & his Orchestra record "Whistles", with Skinnay Ennis as vocalist, in NYC
• 1931 Scottsboro Boys arrested in Alabama, accused of raping a white woman

• 1935 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
• 1936 200-inch mirror blank to build the Hale telescope leaves Corning New York for California (then largest telescopic mirror ever made)

• 1937 Italy & Yugoslavia sign non-aggression treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
• 1937 Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
• 1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
• 1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
• 1941 Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon, South Carolina, incorporated
• 1942 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov district reach the Bełżec Concentration camp
• 1943 97% of all Dutch physicians strike against Nazi registration

• 1944 Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
• 1945 US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen, Germany after crossing the Rhine
• 1945 US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
• 1945 US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa

• 1947 Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia
• 1947 Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Illinois kills 111
• 1947 Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch)
• 1949 The Soviet Union begins Operation Pribioi, the mass deportation of 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to inhospitable areas in the Soviet Union
• 1951 5th Tony Awards: "Guys & Dolls" (musical) and "The Rose Tattoo" (play) win
• 1951 Edward Mills Purcell and Harold I. Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab

• 1954 RCA manufactures the 1st color TV set, featured a 12.5-inch screen and cost $1,000
• 1955 East Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR

• 1957 NBA modifies the free-throw rule
• 1957 Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)

• 1958 West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
• 1959 Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate
• 1959 French President De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary

• 1960 First guided missile launched from a nuclear powered submarine (USS Halibut)
• 1960 Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
• 1960 Italian government Tambroni forms
• 1961 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's defeats Utah, 127-120 in quadruple overtime

• 1961 Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
• 1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
• 1962 French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested
• 1963 KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting

• 1964 Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)

• 1965 West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
• 1966 Beatles pose for photographer Robert Whitaker with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for album cover of "Yesterday & Today", it is later pulled from circulation and replaced with a different photo
• 1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
• 1967 The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
• 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1967 Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
• 1968 KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1968 Members of the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest at the lack of housing provision in the city, Northern Ireland
• 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1969 Andes Pact signed in Peru

• 1969 Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president
• 1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
• 1971 European council accepts Mansholt Plan laying off 5 million farmers

• 1971 NFL football team Boston Patriots become New England Patriots as they relocate to Foxboro. Massachusetts

• 1972 America's LP "America" goes #1

• 1972 UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
• 1973 27th Tony Awards: "That Championship Season" (play) and "A Little Night Music" (musical) win
• 1973 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52, Immaculata 1st undefeated team in New York

• 1974 Chipko forest conservation movement begins in Reni Village, Western Himalayas, India, when local woman Gaura Devi hugs a tree to prevent its logging [1]

• 1976 Argentine military junta bans leftist political parties
• 1978 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, UCLA beat Maryland 90-74 in Los Angeles
• 1979 AIAW Women's Basketball Tournament, Old Dominion beat Louisiana Tech 75-65 in Greensboro

• 1979 Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest
• 1979 Space Shuttle Columbia arrives at Kennedy Space Centre to prepare for its first launch, which would eventually happen in 1981
• 1982 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" starring Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly on CBS-TV

• 1983 Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec)

• 1983 Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)

• 1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
• 1987 The US Supreme Court rules that gender-based workplace affirmative action plans do not constitute discrimination on the basis of sex under the Civil Rights Act 1964

• 1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-206

• 1990 Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87

• 1991 Nigerian crude becomes competitive in US Gulf Coast as Nigeria cuts crude prices
• 1992 British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
• 1992 Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space station.

• 1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
• 1994 Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
• 1994 Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37)
• 1995 Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years

• 1996 Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth
• 1996 Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes
• 1996 Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
• 1996 Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (RUS)
• 1996 The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of "mad cow disease" (BSE).
• 1996 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill

• 1997 Indians trade Lofton & Embree to Braves for Grissom & Justice

• 2002 TV reality show "The Bachelor" hosted by Chris Harrison debuts on ABC in the US

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